Tinto Tech, your summary is excellent, and clarifies the main differences between NAT and Bridged; one could say then that NAT applies a virtual networking environment, while Bridged uses the hosts real physical network.

Your points of clarification have enabled me to make a decision to use a bridged configuration. Thank you.

P.S. I looked to see if this thread can be marked as solved (since if I come across further issues it would be best to raise a specific new thread); but I don't see an option for 'solved'; perhaps someone authorised to do so could please mark the thread 'solved'. Thanks.

There is no way to mark a thread as solved. Maybe we'll have it in the future.